Michael Estabrook

Dumped

His daughter got dumped
he was a jerk anyway
trying to ease her suffering
he says everybody gets dumped
one time or another
even me I got dumped
50 years ago but I got over it
I think I did
maybe not completely hard to tell
I'm still talking about it
for crying out loud
but what I mean to say is
for most people getting over it
just takes some time that's all

Bio

Michael Estabrook is a recently retired baby boomer poet freed finally after working 40
years for "The Man" and sometimes "The Woman." No more useless meetings under florescent
lights in stuffy windowless rooms. Now he's able to devote serious time to making better
poems when he's not, of course, trying to satisfy his wife's legendary Honey-Do List.